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Predate


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To date anticipation; to affix to (a document) an earlier than the actual date; to antedate; as, a predated deed or letter.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Effects of this lead exposure on cricket predation by the same HET mice also were observed.
  • (2) Might pine martens suppress other predators that affect capercaillies?
  • (3) This is training that predators rely upon,” she says in the book, “It is, perhaps, a form of gender-wide grooming.” For Caro, the opportunity of the book was to “place the blame where it lies,” she says, “squarely on the shoulders of those who use their power to exploit and damage others.” For all its bleakness, I drew comfort from the stories of the other contributors.
  • (4) There is evidence that they might predate on our native shrimps, on our insect larvae, possibly fish eggs.
  • (5) Phase one is a fall in aortic PGI2 synthesis which predates the appearance of plaque.
  • (6) Energy used for gathering food, resisting predators, play (i.e., most voluntary muscle action), contributes little to aging.
  • (7) A description of sleeping arrangements of the Kung San people of the Kalahari desert; speculations of the need for arousability in primitive society to prevent predators from attacking serve to bolster the view point.
  • (8) Economic openness is the glue that binds the EU together and it is the solution to the crisis of European competitiveness that long predates the current strife.
  • (9) In her first major policy intervention, she said on Tuesday that Labour needed to reset its relationship with business , adding that Miliband’s divisional rhetoric of “predators and producers” was mistaken.
  • (10) The activity pattern of An.gambiae males was not affected by resistance genes; in mating competition and predator avoidance experiments, however, RR males were less successful than RS males which were less successful than SS males.
  • (11) It was just one of two maritime Predator B drones equipped with radar specifically designed to be used over the ocean.
  • (12) Middle ear morphology and behavioural observations of kangaroo rats jumping vertically to avoid predation by owls and rattlesnakes support this view.
  • (13) These top predators may transfer into the atmosphere as much as 20 to 25 percent of photosynthetically fixed carbon.
  • (14) We usually only hear scary stories about invaders such as the Asian hornet , a lethal predator of honeybees.
  • (15) Depending upon the interaction between predator vision, background and colour pattern parameters, certain morphs may be actively maintained in some conditions and not in others, even with the same predators.
  • (16) The reflex is evoked by fear resulting from any threatening event which is perceived as a danger, and with which the organism is unable to cope, typically in a predator confrontation.
  • (17) That contest could examine both Labour’s existential crisis – a split between its liberal urban vote and more socially conservative heartland vote that long predates Corbyn – and the national crisis of confidence following Brexit.
  • (18) The incorporation of interference into niche theory clarifies the competitive phenomenon of unstable equilibrium points, excess density compensation on islands, competitive avoidance by escape in time and space, the persistence of the "prudent predator," and the magnitude of the difference between the size of a species' fundamental niche and its realized niche.
  • (19) Two cases are considered: mutualism with the prey and mutualism with the first predator.
  • (20) Where we revere and anthropomorphise such brutal predators as sharks, tigers and bears, we view these tiny ectoparasites as worthless, an evolutionary accident with no redeeming or adorable characteristics.

Predation


Definition:

  • (n.) The act of pillaging.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Effects of this lead exposure on cricket predation by the same HET mice also were observed.
  • (2) Might pine martens suppress other predators that affect capercaillies?
  • (3) This is training that predators rely upon,” she says in the book, “It is, perhaps, a form of gender-wide grooming.” For Caro, the opportunity of the book was to “place the blame where it lies,” she says, “squarely on the shoulders of those who use their power to exploit and damage others.” For all its bleakness, I drew comfort from the stories of the other contributors.
  • (4) There is evidence that they might predate on our native shrimps, on our insect larvae, possibly fish eggs.
  • (5) Phase one is a fall in aortic PGI2 synthesis which predates the appearance of plaque.
  • (6) Energy used for gathering food, resisting predators, play (i.e., most voluntary muscle action), contributes little to aging.
  • (7) A description of sleeping arrangements of the Kung San people of the Kalahari desert; speculations of the need for arousability in primitive society to prevent predators from attacking serve to bolster the view point.
  • (8) Economic openness is the glue that binds the EU together and it is the solution to the crisis of European competitiveness that long predates the current strife.
  • (9) In her first major policy intervention, she said on Tuesday that Labour needed to reset its relationship with business , adding that Miliband’s divisional rhetoric of “predators and producers” was mistaken.
  • (10) The activity pattern of An.gambiae males was not affected by resistance genes; in mating competition and predator avoidance experiments, however, RR males were less successful than RS males which were less successful than SS males.
  • (11) It was just one of two maritime Predator B drones equipped with radar specifically designed to be used over the ocean.
  • (12) Middle ear morphology and behavioural observations of kangaroo rats jumping vertically to avoid predation by owls and rattlesnakes support this view.
  • (13) These top predators may transfer into the atmosphere as much as 20 to 25 percent of photosynthetically fixed carbon.
  • (14) We usually only hear scary stories about invaders such as the Asian hornet , a lethal predator of honeybees.
  • (15) Depending upon the interaction between predator vision, background and colour pattern parameters, certain morphs may be actively maintained in some conditions and not in others, even with the same predators.
  • (16) The reflex is evoked by fear resulting from any threatening event which is perceived as a danger, and with which the organism is unable to cope, typically in a predator confrontation.
  • (17) That contest could examine both Labour’s existential crisis – a split between its liberal urban vote and more socially conservative heartland vote that long predates Corbyn – and the national crisis of confidence following Brexit.
  • (18) The incorporation of interference into niche theory clarifies the competitive phenomenon of unstable equilibrium points, excess density compensation on islands, competitive avoidance by escape in time and space, the persistence of the "prudent predator," and the magnitude of the difference between the size of a species' fundamental niche and its realized niche.
  • (19) Two cases are considered: mutualism with the prey and mutualism with the first predator.
  • (20) Where we revere and anthropomorphise such brutal predators as sharks, tigers and bears, we view these tiny ectoparasites as worthless, an evolutionary accident with no redeeming or adorable characteristics.

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